Vocabulary: 邯郸记
- a (real) man; boy; son
- at the knee (in reference to children); (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents)
- to pity
- wedding day; day of tryst
- (bound form) to patronize; to support; to aid; (bound form) to praise; to laud
- newcomer; new recruit; fresh talent; newlywed, esp. new bride; newlywed couple; bride and groom; (paleoanthropology) later-period Homo sapiens
- bridegroom; groom
- to have sex; to make love; silk tree (Albizia julibrissin)
- lotus
- cheek
- (bound form) to become visible (esp. on a surface or in perception)
- small jade cup with ears
- sudden; unexpected; abrupt; suddenly; Taiwan pr. [zou4]
- whole audience; a sellout (capacity audience); jam-packed
- confident and at ease; free and easy
- 天台 Tiān tāi: 天台 Tian1 tai1: Mt Tiantai near Shaoxing 紹興|绍兴 in Zhejiang, the center of Tiantai Buddhism 天台宗; Tiantai county in Taizhou 台州[Tai1 zhou1], Zhejiang天台 tiān tái: 天台 tian1 tai2: rooftop
- sunset glow; sunset clouds; afterglow
- 阮 ruǎn: 阮 ruan3: ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute阮 Ruǎn: 阮 Ruan3: surname Ruan; small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC) located in the southeast of present-day Gansu Province
- lightly; softly
- lit. cloud and rain; fig. sexual intercourse
- alarmed; frightened
- clothing; unlined garment
- 苴 jū: 苴 ju1: (hemp); sack cloth苴 Jū: 苴 Ju1: surname Ju
- deaf and nonverbal
- (literary) to hope for; to count on; (literary) to expect; to anticipate (esp. in negative expressions)
- to turn upside down; to reverse; back to front; confused; deranged; crazy
- 绛 jiàng: 绛 jiang4: purple-red绛 Jiàng: 绛 Jiang4: capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC)
- cotton yarn; muslin
- wealth; money
- thick and thin; coarse and fine; thickness (caliber); coarseness; quality of work
- bridal room and ornamented candles; wedding festivities (idiom)
- step by step; little by little
- family influential for generations; aristocratic family
- (literary) prime years; youthful years
- gorge
- terms of endearment; words of love
- 洗 xǐ: 洗 xi3: to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc); to erase (a recording)洗 xiǎn: 洗 xian3: used in 洗馬|洗马[xian3 ma3]
- to strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate; deficient or lacking (dialect); how or what (literary)
- 喇 lā: 喇 la1: (onom.) sound of wind, rain etc喇 lǎ: 喇 la3: (phonetic)